Best Host to Toast a Ghost (2010)

G.H.O.U.L.A.

It doesnt take much more than decent eyesight to see a celebrity in L.A. But a ghost? That might take some doing. Fortunately, Richard Carradine and G.H.O.U.L.A. are here to help. Ghost Hunters of Urban Los Angeles hosts Spirits With Spirits gatherings, on the 13th of each month, in a haunted locale. Their slogan: Lets put the Boo! back into booze. G.H.O.U.L.A. gatherings bring together kindred spirits to swap ghost stories and hunt for specters in a congenial atmosphere. In August, on Friday the 13th, the group visited Santa Anita Race Tracks Derby Restaurant, said to be haunted by Seabiscuits jockey, George Woolf. In September they moved on to Echo Parks 1642, in a Deco building that opened in 1914 and has been a neighborhood bar since at least the 1940s; its ghost reportedly is a happy, tippling type of spirit, prone to bumping bartenders and patrons alike. Skeptics welcome. ghoula.blogspot.com. Lisa Horowitz